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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe advise George to do?
(a) Go to Lisbon.
(b) Go to the coast.
(c) Stay with Vivar.
(d) Join with the Spanish army.

2. What does Harper refuse to do?
(a) Carry the ammunition packs.
(b) Stay behind as rear guard.
(c) Become an officer.
(d) Prepare to depart.

3. How does Sharpe get a telescope?
(a) He buys it when he is on leave.
(b) He receives it for bravery.
(c) His brother gives it to him for his birthday.
(d) His father leaves it to him.

4. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers to do when he sights French cavalry?
(a) Stop and hide.
(b) Continue down the road.
(c) Turn around.
(d) Go off the road to the right.

5. In the prologue, where have Vivar and his men taken refuge?
(a) In Madrid.
(b) In the Black Forest.
(c) In Santiago de Compostela.
(d) In the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivar encourage Sharpe to do about Harper?

2. What does Sharpe do when Captain Murray is hit with a musket round?

3. Why does Vivar bury the French dead?

4. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount at the dinner table?

5. Who intervenes when Sharpe and Vivar get into a fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe ask about the strong box and what is Vivar's response? How does Sharpe respond to this?

2. What happens when the French assault the farmhouse the first time and what does Sharpe tell Harper? What is Harper's response?

3. What does de l'Eclin accuse Sharpe of and what is Sharpe's response? What does Vivar's brother say?

4. What does De l'Eclin tell Sharpe about surrender and what does he say about the French army? What does Sharpe think of De l'Eclin's assertion about the French army?

5. What does Williams tell Harper about Sharpe and what does Sharpe tell Williams to do? What is Williams suggestion to Sharpe?

6. What does Major Dunnet tell Sharpe to do, how does he address him and how does he feel about Sharpe? What does Murray suspect about Dunnet's feelings towards Sharpe?

7. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

8. Why does Sharpe withdraw his small force of riflemen he left in the woods?

9. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers when they see French cavalry coming and what does he do with his riflemen? Who does he see within the French forces?

10. What happens as Sharpe is about to order his riflemen to flee the house and who joins him in the woods?

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